Quotes About Race

I think that, in America, even though race is a social construct, I mean, we say this in theory, but I think a lot of people don't believe that it really is. And so it's still a very racialized society.

When you come out of the NBA, you get a hundred million-dollar contract and a white woman!

Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

These sorts of conversations should be second nature, it shouldn't be hard to talk about race.

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

Why aren't there enough black cops out there? We need black cops to come in and educate some of the white cops who have issues.

I'm black so I've been getting eyed by cops my whole life.

If you are black then you have to be better than your white counterpart to be equal. That's life.

Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

White people scare the crap out of me.

I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.

Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or another just based upon race, I just think it's certainly going to be subject to that criticism of racism.

The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other.

I certainly don't stay out of the sun, and I also don't, as some of my critics have said, put on blackface as a performance.

Malorie Blackman's 'Noughts & Crosses' was my favourite as a kid - it was the first time I'd heard of interracial courtship outside of my family.

Good rap records don't get too far, but rap records that are made for crossing over to white audiences do go a long way.

It's usually human drama that carries with it issues of race or class that attracts me. That was certainly the case with 'No Crossover.'

My color's not a crutch. See, funny crosses a lot of color barriers.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan.

The Tour is the No. 1 event in cycling.